07/09/2009

Panarchism

Everyone should have the freedom to do whatever they want as long as they do not harm others. In this, they should also have the freedom to belong to whatever system they want as long as their system does not harm people in their own or other systems. Therefore, there cannot be anarchism without there also being panarchism, which is the freedom to join any government one chooses. Having total freedom, one could also choose for oneself to have less freedom, pledging oneself to a benevolent, enlightened dictatorship.

Through panarchism, anarcho-communism could be made to work, as only people who would fulfill its conditions could be allowed to join; it would work best if people who would join only to profit from others in the system were not allowed, though, of course, in a panarchism people would be free to form a system where these people were allowed, although it would then be significantly poorer. In the system where these people were not allowed, anyone who was judged to work too little could be banished for causing indirect harm to others in the system.

In a panarchistic system, politicians would be inventors, not petty preachers trying to howl each other down.

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